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by selcuka 664 days ago
> your initial assertion was that auto-incrementing integer IDs weren’t always possible, thus the need for UUIDs.

You suggested timestamp+autoinc, and my initial assertion was that auto-incrementing integer IDs weren’t always possible, thus the need for the random part after the timestamp (a la UUIDv7). I see that we have actually been on the same page.